the rules
- 1It must be collaborative — solo recordings don't count.
- 2Name it first — E.g., one person starts the title, the other finishes it with the first thing that comes to mind.
- 3Quantity over quality — don't overthink it, just make it.
"You gotta get to the table and pour some water into the tray. That's the way you know you got to be making clay."
— I'm About To Make Clay
the stats
1,975
recordings
40
years
24
collaborators
∞
quality ceiling
the origin
It started in 1986. David and Sadiq — two kids with a tape recorder, too much free time, and a shared conviction that quantity beats quality every time — made their first collaborative recording. They named it before they made it. It was a mess. They loved it.
They just made up the name "kunjabunja" and it stuck.
40 years later, there are 1,975 of them. They span continents, decades, formats (reel-to-reel, cassette, MiniDisc, digital), and collaborators. Most are terrible. Some are transcendent. All of them exist because they were made without worrying too much about whether they should be.
mah jong, 1994
collaborators
24 artists have made kunjabunjas over the years.
"Awesome"All Tonights PeopleBear MouthCarnjabunjasDipthongsDJ Mumpy Wanna DieEmerald & DavidJohn & ElizabethJohn Ackermann and David NixonLord Kleemox's ArmyMah JongNaked Raging KeeblersR&DRussell-NixonSadiq & DavidSadiq & David & JeremySadiq & David & MarkSarah & JohnTessa & SadiqThe Dow Jones Industrial AverageThe Half BrothersThe Half Family Goodtime PlayersW09Yo Dojo
this site
kunjabunja.com is a public archive of all 1,975+ recordings. Use the radio to let it shuffle through them lean-back style, or browse to search for specific songs and build a custom playlist.
The recordings are stored as MP3 and M4A files. No conversion, no lossy re-encoding — they're served directly as Sadiq & David had them.
the reviewers
Every kunjabunja on the site is listened to by one of our reviewers — a panel of people from around the world who share their own thoughts on what they hear.
contact
Questions, corrections, or if you want to make a kunjabunja:
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